Word: subpoenae
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...gradual seduction by the Communist Party, a hefty, ham-handed man slipped into a rear-row seat in the hearing room. Recognized by an alert committee aide as Constantin Radzie, who was born in Russia and became a U.S. citizen in 1937, the spectator was served with a quick subpoena and taken to the witness stand. Scowling like a wrestler, Radzie denied that he had been sent by the party to intimidate Professor Albaum. In the end, he invoked the Fifth Amendment as smoothly as a professor. He refused to say whether he was a party hatchetman or whether...
...women connected with I.P.R. and involved by evidence in pro-Communist activities were out of reach (abroad, dead, in hiding, etc,) of subpoena. Included: Gunther Stein, Agnes Smedley, Andrew Roth...
...show, not give, membership lists when applying to use Harvard facilities." Currently concerned with the Harvard facilities." Currently concerned with the trouble unpopular associations may cause undergraduates in the future, they have forgotten the trouble it may cause them while in college. It may be unlikely that anyone would subpoena membership lists out of War son's office, but it is legally possible...
Whatever else it did, the investigation would hurt Morris' effort to get subpoena powers from Congress. He just did not seem to be made for either the giving or receiving end of an investigation. As he himself put it: "I am a queer kind of guy. You probably wouldn't understand me . . . It is kind of hard to explain. I guess I am a softy, Mr. Chairman...
Because Congress has nailed him to the tankers, Morris has received neither subpoena power nor the privilege to immunize certain witnesses from prosecution. The investigation has dragged on for so long that it looks as if Morris' chances to tackle the Internal Revenue Department are as remote as Pogo's fulfilling his "date in Lapland to trim a reindeer...